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and progress--that we take for granted

The temptation is merciless

She knows that from this point on

But nothing that has come before can prepare them for the final battle

The Hard Crowd - Essays 2000-2020 9781509822843 Stevens has upped her gameRachel Kushner is a writer celebrated for her 'chops, ambition, and killer instinct' (John Powers, Fresh Air). In The Hard Crowd, she gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that addresses the most pressing political, artistic, and cultural issues of our times and illuminates the themes and real life terrain that underpin her fiction. In nineteen razor sharp essays, The Hard Crowd spans literary journalism,